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Foil 17 What is Computational Science?

From Initial CPS615 Course and Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

1 Computational Science is an interdisciplinary field that integrates computer science and applied mathematics with a wide variety of application areas that use significant computation to solve their problems
2 Includes the study of computational techniques
  • Science and Engineering - Grand Challenges
  • Society and Business - National Challenge
3 Includes the study of new algorithms, languages and models in computer science and applied mathematics required by the use of high performance computing and communications in any (?) important application
  • At interface of (applied) computer science and applications
4 Includes computation of complex systems using physical analogies such as neural networks and genetic optimization.

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